Personnel news

October 08

NS

• Timo Partala has left HIIT

PAS

• Ali Faisal and Melih Kandemir have started as PhD students in Sami Kaski's group.
• Doris Entner started as a PhD student, supervisor Patrik Hoyer.

September 08

ADA

• Alba Martinez-Ruiz visits Sami Kaski's group for 3 months from 5 September 2008.
• Joel Kaasinen went to Zendroid.
• Sourav Bhattacharya changed to NRC.

FI

• Jussi Kangasharju nominated as acting Programme Director.

PAS

• Tei Laine and Tomi Silander moved to Singapore as of the beginning of September.
• Post-doc researcher Kun Zhang joins the team from 1 November 2008 to 30 October 2010.

August 08

ADA

• Robert Natau from ETH Zürich works on his Master's Thesis from 23 August 2008 to 28 February 2009.

NS

• Tommo Reti left HIIT.

June 08

HIIT Board Member Thomas Wilhelmsson has been elected to the Rector of the University of Helsinki. HIIT congratulates the new Rector of the University. Read more »

Tei Laine moves to Singapore, Institute of High Performance Computing.

PAS

• Antti Hyttinen has started as a PhD student in Patrik Hoyer's Causal Discovery in Science project.

May 08

HIIT congratulates some 30 persons for nominations and happy family news.

ADA

• Petteri Kaski have been nominated in a Senior Research Position. Read more »
• 6 Summer Trainees join the ADA team:
  • Mikael Andersson
  • Aleksi Hankalahti
  • Joel Kaasinen,
  • Lasse Nordgren
  • Anne Pääkkö
  • Samuli Reunanen
• Kai Puolamäki has left for paternity leave
• Petteri Toivonen moved to Biocomputing Platforms Finland.

FI

• Ruishan Zhang will join the team as a Post-doctoral Researcher. Read more »
• Other new members in the FI team:
  • Dimitri Lagutin (PSIRP)
  • Mark Ain (PSIRP)
  • Harri Hämäläinen (P2P-Fusion)
  • Jani Turunen (OtaSizzle)
  • Dimitry Kuptsov (WiseCiti)
  • Eemil Lagerspetz (UbiLife)
  • Theofanis Kilinkaridis (InfraHIP II)
• 6 Summer Trainees join the FI team:
  • Li Jia (PSIRP)
  • Markku Antikainen (PSIRP)
  • Bruno Lorentin (FI programme/Usable security)
  • Ekaterina Vorobyeva (InfraHIP II)
  • Amit Soni (InfraHIP II)
  • Artturi Karila (InfraHIP II)

NS

• Dr. Pekka Räsänen and Dr. Antti Oulasvirta have been nominated in Senior Research Positions. Read more »
• Juho Hamari (AVEA) has joined the team as a Research Assistant
• Veli-Matti Wikman has joined the team as a Summer Traine

PAS

• Teemu Roos will join the team as a Post-doctoral Researcher. Read more »
• Teemu Roos will also become the Programme Manager of the PAS Programme from 1 June 2008
• 3 Summer Trainees join the PAS team:
  • Matti Jokipii
  • Mika Urtela
  • Anu Sulander